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Tai Chi form on the competition style by someone who can do it full of grace. Today I feel kind of older since I have heard Merlin Olson has died of cancer and I always liked his acting on Little House and Father Murphy. He was a gentle giant in acting and a fearsome foursome on the football field. But then yesterday I heard Chuck Norris was 70 years old and has had hip replacement surgery like some of the 1960's and 1970's kicking stars of Karate and external art have endured in older days. It is really remarkable how many 80 and 90 year old Tai Chi masters are so fluid at that advanced age. Its one of the reasons I suspect it may benefit an older person to do an internal art form like Tai Chi. I think of it as a moving art form with creative expression and attention to detail. It is hard recently to lose Gene Barry my childhood Bat Masterson and much better version of War of the Worlds movie fame only to find out the Oscars left him out of the memorial just like Farrah Fawcett and Bea Arthur. I have thought Oscar was tainted since ET lost because of what I only could think was sheer jealousy of Spielberg's talent. I can never understand how you could avoid ET, The Wizard of Oz, or Hitchcock for so many chances to give an honor simply because the rather closed community had their own likes and dislikes that may not reflect the movie going public fan sitting in a dark theater eating popcorn and enjoying the air conditioning in the summer. ET and the Wizard endure. Some films honored seem to be for preferences of a much smaller area. Its like reading a review by someone of a movie you really had a good time at and wondering what film did they attend and was it really just a reason to show how sarcastic the review can be. I guess that is one reason I like the quality of writing by some reviewers like Ebert even when I might not agree with his take on some movies. I think if you really love movies like he does but you have to sit through hours of bad movies, you may become desperate to see something different and more of an art film simply because the viewing habits of a critic forced to sit through so many bad movies may be different than the view of someone after a really hard day going to the movies to simply get away from things for a while and having a good time. I can tell you of all the movies I paid to see in a theater, I saw Star Wars the most times and not once in my home town theater oddly enough. YouTube
- Tai Chi 24-form